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Game #38: No. 10 Texas A&M 5, Louisiana State 2
Records: Texas A&M (31-7, 12-5), Louisiana State (23-18, 6-12)
WP: Gavin Lyons (7-0)
LP: Zac Cowan (1-2)
Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n

BATON ROUGE, La. \u2014 On all three days, the Aggies caught the Tigers by their tail.<\/p>\n

Even after LSU skipper Jay Johnson hollered postgame on Friday, Texas A&M never let them go.<\/p>\n

It all culminated in a three-game sweep by the nation\u2019s 10th-ranked ballclub, which posted a 5-2 victory inside a sparse and deafeningly quiet Alex Box Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n

For the first time since 1978, the Aggies have swept LSU, in Baton Rouge or elsewhere, putting Michael Earley in\u00a0exclusive company with Hall of Fame coach Tom Chandler.<\/p>\n

By virtue of winning four straight SEC series and 11 of his last 12 conference games, Earley is making a case to join another exclusive list: SEC Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n

Talk of such accolades comes with the territory of accomplishing something for the first time in 48 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s cool. Definitely cool for the fan base.I wasn\u2019t alive in 1978. Just an awesome win. That was gritty. \u2026 Pitching was awesome. Defense was awesome. We scored situationally when we needed to score. Overall, great weekend. A lot of team wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

– Texas A&M head baseball coach Michael Earley<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s cool. Definitely cool for the fan base,\u201d the Aggie skipper said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t alive in 1978. Just an awesome win. That was gritty. \u2026 Pitching was awesome. Defense was awesome. We scored situationally when we needed to score.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, great weekend. A lot of team wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

A typically hollering and hostile crowd was reduced to a whimpering 10,938 as the Aggies wailed and wailed often early.<\/p>\n

Scoring in each of the first four frames, Weston Moss received plenty of run support during his scoreless 4.1-inning start.<\/p>\n

Moss did not allow a hit until the fourth and did not let a man into scoring position until the fifth, at which point Gavin Lyons extinguished the threat and one more in the subsequent frame.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe filled it up,\u201d Earley said of Moss. \u201cIt was great. He did an awesome job. Changeup was good. Fastball was good.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat work he had earlier in the week, maybe with a little rest \u2014 you know, silver lining and not playing that game \u2014 got a little rest, got some work in. I thought he was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tiger starter Zac Cowan had no such luck as Caden Sorrell beat him and the stiff northwind on the game\u2019s ninth pitch, lining his 18th home run just over the right field wall to open the scoring.<\/p>\n

An inning later, Bear Harrison\u2019s sacrifice fly added another. In the third, Chris Hacopian launched a two-run homer to left. Three consecutive fourth-inning singles plated a fifth.<\/p>\n

Hacopian accumulated four hits on the weekend. The two that went for extra bases came after he took a 93 mph fastball to the mouth in Friday\u2019s opener.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to play for these guys and give everything I\u2019ve got, and I\u2019m just so glad how the weekend went,\u201d the Aggie second baseman said. \u201cIt\u2019s baseball. You\u2019re going to run through struggles and slumps and stuff, but at the end of the day, you\u2019ve just got to get back to the drawing board, and you\u2019ve got to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou gotta be tough in this game. My sister said tough times don\u2019t last; tough people do. That\u2019s kind of just been my motto for April.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the time Deven Sheerin entered for LSU, the Aggies held a seemingly insurmountable 4-0 edge.<\/p>\n

All Sheerin did was strike out nine in 4.2 innings of one-run relief to keep the Aggies hitless for the final five frames as the game never went fully over the ledge.<\/p>\n

Of course, it didn\u2019t matter as Moss, Lyons and Clayton Freshcorn barely budged as a Cade Arrambide ambush shot and an unearned run trimmed A&M\u2019s lead to 5-2 in the penultimate inning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought Weston was slowing down just a little out there; at least that\u2019s what it looked like,\u201d Earley said. \u201cWhen we got to (Lyons), it\u2019s \u2018cause we\u2019ve got a ton of confidence in him. Not that we don\u2019t in Moss, but that\u2019s what it looked like in the game, and Gavin\u2019s been getting it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Ethan Mito, Texas A&M Athletics<\/p>\n

Weston Moss allowed three hits in 4.1 innings of scoreless baseball.<\/p>\n

It seems as if everyone in Maroon & White is getting it done.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s two-game sweep of Texas was a statement. This weekend\u2019s Tiger taming should tell the nation these Aggies are anything but tame.<\/p>\n

Sure, a road trip to Gainesville is on deck. Then come series\u00a0with Auburn, Ole Miss and Mississippi State.<\/p>\n

The job is far from finished, but at least for the moment, the Aggies are 0.5 games behind Georgia for first place in the SEC.<\/p>\n

That is worth hollering about. As is this memorable Tiger tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game #38: No. 10 Texas A&M 5, Louisiana State 2Records: Texas A&M (31-7, 12-5), Louisiana State (23-18, 6-12)WP:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17051,117979,117980,117981,8756,117984,117977,117982,117987,117985,117976,7,117986,117974,978,117972,49,48,77522,41950,117978,1687,117973,117983,117975],"class_list":{"0":"post-870491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-17051","9":"tag-4-17-2026","10":"tag-4-18-2026","11":"tag-4-19-2026","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-bear-harrison","14":"tag-cade-arrambide","15":"tag-caden-sorrell","16":"tag-chris-hacopian","17":"tag-clayton-freshcorn","18":"tag-deven-sheerin","19":"tag-football","20":"tag-gavin-lyons","21":"tag-jay-johnson","22":"tag-lsu","23":"tag-michael-earley","24":"tag-ncaa","25":"tag-ncaa-football","26":"tag-richard-zane","27":"tag-texags","28":"tag-texas-am-at-lsu-baseball","29":"tag-texas-am","30":"tag-tom-chandler","31":"tag-weston-moss","32":"tag-zac-cowan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116435934333390093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}